True Blue LA - September 9: Dodgers 6, Diamondbacks 4 (10 innings)Where The Dodger Dogs Are Always Grilledhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/49563/truebluela_fav.png2020-09-09T22:03:02-07:00http://www.truebluela.com/rss/stream/211940962020-09-09T22:03:02-07:002020-09-09T22:03:02-07:00Dodgers prevail in extras, again
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<p>2 runs in the 10th tilt this one in LA’s favor</p> <p id="G1z5xg">It wasn’t as high-scoring as the series opener, but <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a>-<a href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a> was just as wild and sloppy on Wednesday. It took 10 innings to decide things for a second straight night, with the Dodgers emerging as 6-4 victors.</p>
<p id="JhFvcc"><span>Chris Taylor</span> singled home the free run to start the top of the 10th, then after a walk scored on a single by <span>A.J. Pollock</span>.</p>
<p id="Vi92ko"><span>Blake Treinen</span> made the two runs hold up in the 10th, picking up his first save as a Dodger. This came one night after <span>Kenley Jansen</span> threw a season-high 31 pitches, rendering him unavailable for this one.</p>
<p id="zkjWI3">The bullpen combined for five scoreless innings, allowing a hit and a walk, with six strikeouts.</p>
<p id="puShz4">The Dodgers are 5-1 in extra-inning games this season. Three of those wins have come against the Diamondbacks in the last eight days, all three decided in 10 innings.</p>
<h3 id="6udeYi">For starters</h3>
<p id="DENQbC"><span>Clayton Kershaw</span> slogged through five innings, allowing four runs. He wasn’t helped all that much by the defense, with a third-inning Arizona rally featuring a single that bounced off of third base and a double play ball that was bobbled, settling for only one out. The fifth inning saw errors by <span>Corey Seager</span> and two by <span>Mookie Betts</span> on consecutive plays, plating the tying run. </p>
<p id="7x9nUv">But Kershaw didn’t have his usual command. He threw 20+ pitches in three different innings on Wednesday, after doing so just twice in his previous four starts. Kershaw also induced only six swinging strikes in his 87 pitches.</p>
<p id="XTElHQ">“My fastball command was not great tonight, and really my slider wasn’t good either,” Kershaw said on a conference call after the game. “You just try to limit the best you can, and hope something can happen. Tonight it did.”</p>
<p id="7f4fpT">Though the go-ahead run was 90 feet away with only one out, Kershaw was able to escape with the game still tied.</p>
<h3 id="M5i1l0">Paying tribute</h3>
<p id="YZXsAF"><span>Kiké Hernández</span> was one of <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/9/21429626/walker-buehler-pedro-baez-justin-turner-edwin-rios-kike-hernandez-dodgers-notes">two Dodgers to wear number 21 on Wednesday in honor of Roberto Clemente</a> (<span>Edwin Rios</span>, who like Hernandez is from Puerto Rico, also wore 21; <span>Walker Buehler</span> did too, but that’s his regular number), and he had one of his best offensive games of the year.</p>
<p id="zjAPoX">In the second inning, Orel Hershiser and Joe Davis were talking about Hernández paying tribute to Clemente on the SportsNet LA broadcast. Then the count ran full.</p>
<p id="1a1dnx">“Taylor Clarke, predominantly fastballs,” Hershiser said. “Kiké can turn around any fastball, so if he doesn’t try to trick him here and throws him a strike, it would be a nice tribute to hit one over the fence.”</p>
<p id="U0a92d">Like clockwork, this happened.</p>
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<p lang="und" dir="ltr">For 21. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClementeDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ClementeDay</a> <a href="https://t.co/lRLloSjINE">pic.twitter.com/lRLloSjINE</a></p>— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) <a href="https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1303880393179893767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2020</a>
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<p id="Tc8HSk">Hernández also singled in the fourth inning for his fourth multi-hit game of the season. Both hits were off the right-hander Clarke. Hernández entered Friday hitting just .250/.280/.417 against right-handers, an 87 wRC+.</p>
<h3 id="pctrmj">Wednesday particulars</h3>
<p id="676iiU"><strong>Home runs</strong>: <span>Mookie Betts</span> (14), Kiké Hernández (4)</p>
<p id="TBsdi6"><strong>WP — </strong><span><strong>Jake McGee</strong></span><strong> (3-1)</strong>: 1 IP, 2 strikeouts</p>
<p id="ymxTMd"><strong>LP — </strong><span><strong>Kevin Ginkel</strong></span><strong> (0-2)</strong>: ⅓ IP, 1 hit, 2 runs (1 earned), 1 walk, 1 strikeout</p>
<p id="ZBQz80"><strong>Sv — </strong><span><strong>Blake Treinen</strong></span><strong> (1)</strong>: 3 up, 3 down</p>
<h3 id="iIjeFJ">Up next</h3>
<p id="0Dw7ug">The Dodgers try for the sweep on Thursday night (6:40 p.m.; SportsNet LA, MLB Network), with <span>Dustin May</span> on the mound against <span>Madison Bumgarner</span> for Arizona.</p>
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<p>Game 44 of 60</p> <p id="llbuFA">The <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> take on the <a href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a> for the penultimate time in 2020, with <span>Clayton Kershaw</span> on the mound against right-hander <span>Taylor Clarke</span>.</p>
<h3 id="FtNkLv">Pregame reading</h3>
<aside id="KyDQlP"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Notes: Buehler, Baez, Turner, Clemente Day","url":"https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/9/21429626/walker-buehler-pedro-baez-justin-turner-edwin-rios-kike-hernandez-dodgers-notes"},{"title":"Remembering Sandy Koufax’s perfect game","url":"https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/9/21428058/sandy-koufax-perfect-game-dodgers-1965"}]}'></div></aside><h3 id="eETtmR">Game info</h3>
<p id="Jsm9Q4">Time: 6:40 p.m. PT</p>
<p id="bSfjTT">TV: SportsNet LA, MLB Network (out of market)</p>
https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/9/21429918/dodgers-diamondbacks-game-threadEric Stephen2020-09-09T16:34:27-07:002020-09-09T16:34:27-07:00Notes: Buehler, Baez, Turner, Clemente Day
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<p>Dodgers rotation order beyond this series is TBD</p> <p id="w0JLEG"><span>Clayton Kershaw</span> is on the mound for the <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> against the <a href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a> on Wednesday night in Phoenix, but the plan for the rotation beyond this series is up in the air at this point.</p>
<p id="KGPR3O"><span>Dustin May</span> will start Thursday’s series finale, and the Dodgers are off Friday, allowing them to shuffle things if they so choose. Depending on how <span>Walker Buehler</span>’s blister progresses will inform this decision.</p>
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<p id="4lwMb2"><span>Dave Roberts</span> called Tuesday’s start, in which Buehler retired his first seven batters but then was done before finishing the third, allowing five runs and two home runs, a net neutral. When Buehler will make his next start remains in question.</p>
<p id="fCSpeO">“It’s a conversation we’re having and we really don’t need to make a decision right now or the next day,” Roberts said on a conference call. “We’re trying to figure out the best way to combat it, but as far as the shape of the finger, Walker’s mind and body, all good.”</p>
<h3 id="2Ne5yp">The cavalry returning soon</h3>
<p id="RvFWrZ"><span>Pedro Baez</span> threw two simulated innings on Wednesday at the alternate training site at USC, and “activation this weekend looks very possible,” Roberts said. Baez, on the injured list with a right groin strain, last pitched in a game on August 19.</p>
<p id="LnoZrd"><span>Joc Pederson</span> was among the hitters facing Baez on Wednesday, and will be activated from the paternity list before Saturday’s series opener against the <a href="https://www.crawfishboxes.com/">Astros</a>.</p>
<p id="s7J2jv"><span>Justin Turner</span>, out since Aug. 29 with a left hamstring strain, is running at 50-60 percent, Roberts said. Turner’s first game or two back will likely be at designated hitter. “Hopefully this weekend is in play, but if not then we’ll be ready when he’s ready,” Roberts said.</p>
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<p lang="es" dir="ltr">Tratando de encontrar palabras para describir lo que siento en este día y creo que palabras no le harían justicia a este sentimiento! Que HONOR y que ORGULLO el poder usar el numero 21 en honor a nuestra leyenda <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RobertoClementeDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#RobertoClementeDay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Retire21?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Retire21</a> <a href="https://t.co/IuVb4xtX1r">pic.twitter.com/IuVb4xtX1r</a></p>— Enrique Hernández (@kikehndez) <a href="https://twitter.com/kikehndez/status/1303836634878627845?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2020</a>
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<h3 id="Lw08Qp">Clemente Day</h3>
<p id="aAybXI">September 9 is Roberto Clemente Day throughout MLB, and the Dodgers’ two players from Puerto Rico, <span>Kiké Hernández</span> and <span>Edwin Ríos</span>, will wear number 21 on Wednesday to honor Clemente.</p>
<p id="p3M1Ss">“I don’t want to say he was the perfect human, but he put everybody else before himself. He died to go take food and clothes to people in Nicaragua,” Rios said on a conference call. “If I can be half the person he was, I think I’ll be okay.”</p>
<p id="yACbn2">Hernández starts in left field, while Rios isn’t in the lineup for this one</p>
<h3 id="0RwRLo">Arizona roster moves</h3>
<p id="fvlYYQ">The D-backs placed <span>Ketel Marte</span> on the injured list with left wrist inflammation and optioned left-handed pitcher <span>Joe Mantiply</span> to their alternate training site. Arizona recalled right-handed pitcher <span>Joel Payamps</span> and utility man <span>Josh VanMeter</span>, the latter acquired from the <a href="https://www.redreporter.com/">Reds</a> last week in the <span>Archie Bradley</span> trade.</p>
<h3 id="CkqhNm">Game info</h3>
<p id="1Ap9XC">Time: 6:40 p.m. PT</p>
<p id="cVB07j">TV: SportsNet LA, MLB Network (out of market)</p>
https://www.truebluela.com/2020/9/9/21429626/walker-buehler-pedro-baez-justin-turner-edwin-rios-kike-hernandez-dodgers-notesEric Stephen